Where Actions can be called
actions can be only called by client? https://docs.convex.dev/functions/actions
Actions | Convex Developer Hub
Actions can call third party services to do things such as processing a payment
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Well, they can be scheduled on the server with
ctx.scheduler.* -- is there something else you had in mind?
you can also call one action from another with ctx.runAction -- though you usually shouldn't, you should just call a regular shared typescript function insteadbasically there is mutation that is called by client (create order). this should call external api and return url to client
dont see way to make it synchronously
Thanks what is the best way to inform client about external api response? Save it to the database?
This is also limitation i would like to know how to stream response from for example openAI to the client. With backend like express possible just to stream it to the client
Here's three Stack articles on that:
https://stack.convex.dev/ai-chat-with-http-streaming
https://stack.convex.dev/gpt-streaming-with-persistent-reactivity
https://stack.convex.dev/streaming-http-using-fetch
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Thank you